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There’s some succession planning going on in The Handmaid’s Tale universe.

Selome Hailu Bruce Miller has stepped down from his post as showrunner of the “The Handmaid’s Tale,” passing his duties on the sixth and final season to Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang, who already served as writers and executive producers. Miller has showrun the Hulu drama since its premiere in 2017. He will remain on staff as a writer and executive producer on Season 6 while moving on to focus on developing a screen adaptation “The Testaments,” the “Handmaid’s Tale” sequel that original author Margaret Atwood wrote in 2019. Tuchman has extended his preexisting overall deal with MGM, which serves as the studio on the series. Along with “The Handmaid’s Tale,” he is best known for writing for the 1997 animated “Anastasia” movie and serving as showrunner on “Kyle XY,” with other credits including Freeform’s “Stitchers,” the CW’s “Beauty and the Beast,” Syfy’s “Alphas” and “Eureka” and CBS’ “Early Edition” and “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.”

UK director Lynne Ramsay has given updates on a raft of projects she has on the boil, including a fresh collaboration with Joaquin Phoenix, on the fringes of the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator this weekend.

The Times, “The Handmaid’s Tale” author noted that the Duke of Sussex was lucky to be born into today’s royal family.If the 38-year-old had been part of more powerful clan, he “would have been murdered by somebody lower down the food chain to get him out of the way,” the 83-year-old told the publication, which noted that she is a fan of “Game of Thrones.”The remark sparked some backlash on Twitter, with one person posting, according to the Mirror, “Words fail me. What an utterly ridiculous comment to make.”The comment comes on the heel of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex being told to “vacate” Frogmore Cottage and the couple seeing their US approval rating plunge after a cheeky “South Park” episode scoffed at their privacy claims.Harry recently published a 400-page memoir in January entitled “Spare,” in which he detailed his life as a member of the royal family and his feelings being the second son of King Charles and the late Princess Diana.The duke recently had an online chat with Dr.

EXCLUSIVE: The talent agency scene in the UK has been the talk of the town since UTA snapped up Curtis Brown Group last year.

Hollywood actor Jim Carrey and Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood are among 100 Canadians newly-banned from entering Russia  in response to sanctions against the country by Canada.    The Russian Foreign Ministry said Liar Liar star Carrey, 60, author and poet Atwood, 82, and Amy Knight, 77, a noted historian of the KGB, were among the well-known names on the banned list.The trio, along with another 97 Canadians , many of whom are connected to ethnic Ukrainian organizations, were banned because of involvement in 'formation of (Canada's) aggressively anti-Russian course', said a ministry spokesman.Writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis, 49, and Bones actress Kathryne Winnick. 44, are also among the Canadians on the list.

She added to Variety: “I feel like, when actors reveal too much of their lives, I’m sometimes watching something and I’m going, ‘Oh, I know that she just broke up with that person,’ or, ‘I know that she loves to do hot yoga,’ or whatever it is.”It comes not long after the celebrated actress turned 40 in July.Despite playing a sex slave in The Handmaid’s Tale, where she is forced to produce children for ruling class men, she explained she isn’t put off by starting her own family.The actress revealed that she was getting broody.“I definitely want to have kids because I’ve been very inspired by the kind of mother my mum is,” she tells You magazine.“She did a beautiful thing with me.”The US star, who remains coy about her relationship status, jokingly added: “And then I’ll give the child to my mum and she can raise it because she’d do it very well!”“I definitely want to have kids because I’ve been very inspired by the kind of mother my mum is,” she tells the publication.For now, the on-screen star's family are her two cats, Ethel and Lucy, who travel with her on filming assignments.“I’m away for seven or eight months of the year – having them with me makes a place feel more like home,” she said.Her relationship with her musician mother, Linda, grew even closer during the pandemic when she was largely confined to New York by lockdown restrictions.She described lockdown as a “special time”.After finding fame in the West Wing playing the daughter of the US President, the actress starred as Peggy Olson in the hit drama series Mad Men.The show is set in a 1960s New York advertising agency.But it is her performance as June, the subversive slave in the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel, that has cemented her place as a

Elisabeth Moss kept it chic and casual as she arrived at Good Morning America's studio in Manhattan on Monday. Sporting a simple black blazer, white button-up shirt, blue jeans and black heeled boots, the 40-year-old actress looked at ease and excited as she smiled and waved to fans. The star stopped by Good Morning America to promote the fifth season of her hit show The Handmaid's Tale, premiering Wednesday on Hulu. On the show she said the end of the first episode for the new season has a major cliffhanger.

Amazon Prime Video is to co-premiere The Handmaid’s Tale for the first time in the UK with Channel 4.

 officially has an end date. Ahead of the season 5 premiere of the Hulu series, the streaming service announced on Thursday that it has renewed the Margaret Atwood adaptation for a sixth and final season.«It has been a true honor to tell the story of Margaret Atwood’s groundbreaking novel and chillingly relevant world, and we are thrilled to bring viewers a sixth and final season of ,» Bruce Miller, creator, showrunner and executive producer, said in a press release.

Hulu has renewed its Emmy-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale for a sixth and final season ahead of its season five premiere on September 14.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic With a title like “Women Talking,” audacious actor-turned-helmer Sarah Polley’s fourth feature makes clear that it will be one of those rare films capable of passing the Bechdel test. That barometer, for those who may not know, poses three seemingly easy-to-meet criteria: (1) The movie has to have at least two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something other than a man. It’s astonishing how many movies fail. Even Polley’s film, which consists of women talking for most of its 97 minutes, is a complicated exception, since most of the conversation — an urgent meeting among the wives, mothers and daughters of an ultraconservative religious colony — concerns the men. But even then, there’s no denying that “Women Talking” is unlike any film you’ve seen before, which is exactly what you’d want from the director of 2012’s astonishingly personal, format-shattering meta-documentary “Stories We Tell.” A decade later, Polley is back with another bold thought experiment, this one inspired by a horrific conspiracy of sexual abuse discovered within a Mennonite community about a decade ago.

 and . If you're searching for what to start streaming next, it's time to check out Hulu.The Kardashian family returns for Season 2 of their Hulu-exclusive reality series, is finally back after a brutal Season 4 ending, and Hulu has a new whodunnit mystery series with a not-so-new name dropping this month. Try Hulu for FreeWant more inspiration for what to watch this weekend? Keep reading to check out our top picks of what’s coming to Hulu this month. Plus, find out which titles are leaving so you can catch them before they’re gone.

climate change for inspiration. The result is “cli-fi” - or climate fiction - which is seeing authors grappling with the apocalyptic outcomes of global heating and man’s relationship with an inhospitable planet.

The revolution continues.

Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel are divorcing after eight years of marriage. The former ‘Mad Men’ star and the former ‘Gilmore Girls’ star have split after tying the knot in 2014, according to court documents. The papers - which were seen by US Weekly - show that the 43-year-old actor filed for divorce against the 40-year-old actress in Putnam County Supreme Court in New York.

When UTA announced its surprise acquisition of London-based Curtis Brown Group last month, it was heralded as an aggressive and strategic move into the UK talent space, causing industry on both sides of the pond to sit up and take notice. U.S. agencies have been canvassing UK companies for a number of years but this deal marks the splashiest effort yet and potentially draws UTA closer to major talent on Curtis Brown’s books such as Robert Pattinson, Margaret Atwood and John le Carré.

Joshua Alston Science fiction (and speculative fiction, its bespectacled cousin) have always been uniquely fertile ground for political allegory. And sci-fi’s metaphorical potential only grows stronger when the politics and culture of real-life society start to resemble the surreality of a dark parallel universe or an alternate history.That frisson of topicality is what made Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” a critical and commercial success in its early seasons.

Warren Littlefield, an executive producer on “The Handmaid’s Tale”, shared his thoughts on the Roe v. Wade overturn’s relevance to the dystopian series. Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel, the show centres on women’s suppressed rights in a totalitarian state known as the Republic of Gilead.

Warren Littlefield, one of the executive producers of The Handmaid’s Tale, is speaking out about the overturning of Roe v. Wade and how the red handmaid outfit has become a symbol for the fight for reproductive rights.

Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale was filming the last two episodes of its upcoming fifth season in Toronto on Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in Washington D.C., stripping American women of their federal right to have an abortion. As protestors gathered outside the court building, some were wearing the Handmaid’s costume from the series, a familiar sight over the last couple of years as the outfit has become a symbol of women’s fight to protect their reproductive rights.